RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 103 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392177

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392177.

Transliteration

[...] e#-pesz# _me3#_ it#-bu#-[x x]
[...] _erin2-hi-a_-ia
[...]-s,u# isz-ku-nu _bad5-bad5_-szu2-un
[...] u2#-mal-lu-u _edin_ rap-szu2
[...] sza2# u2-tak-ki-lu-in-ni
[...]-tal#-lak szal-t,isz
[...] a#-a-u2-si-asz2
[...] bu#-su_-ud_
[...] up#-pi-isz
[...] dan#-nu-ti
[...] x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 103 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P392177) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392177..

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